Chapter 723: A pantomime

Enemy bullets whizzed overhead, forming a dense rain of bullets, and the flood water below was howling, and the sound of bullets breaking through the air could not be heard at all, which added to the sense of horror.

A private of the national army stretched out half of his head and glanced out, but before he could retract his head, the entire Tianling cover was lifted, and the powerful kinetic energy of the machine gun bullet made him fly several meters away, and the red and white things poured to the ground.

"I'll wipe the fuck!" The platoon commander of the second lieutenant of the national army scolded angrily, lying in the sand and watching the bullets fly overhead like rain, all of them fell on the mottled wall of the stone house behind, and the wall was splashed with fire.

The platoon commander of the second lieutenant of the national army soon found that the craters on the wall were concentrated in the middle, and there were basically no bullets on both sides, so he immediately ejected himself, bowed his body, patted the shoulder of a soldier next to him, and motioned for him to help, and the two quickly dragged away the sandbags near the side of the Liangmiao River.

Because the bottom is a 100-meter-high waterhole, the reservoir has been opened all the year round to release water has already washed out a huge water area below, there is no protection above the embankment, people stand on it and look down at the feet are soft, so when the national army builds a sand barrier, both sides are protected with a sand barrier, the most important thing is of course to prevent falling, this fall, not to be killed by the huge water will be washed away, the body can not be found.

Moving open a hole, the platoon commander of the second lieutenant of the national army stuck his head out, and immediately found in horror that the Japanese army was actually hunched over the edges of both sides of the road, advancing rapidly, and in the middle of the road, there were also prostrate devils on the ground, crawling forward under the barrage built above, and the distance was less than 500 meters.

"Machine gun!" The second lieutenant platoon commander howled, took the machine gun handed by the soldier, and ordered the soldier to remove the sand barrier on one side of the reservoir and put the other machine gun out of the edge. Let the Japanese advance another 200 meters, and the Japanese grenadiers will be able to hit the grenadiers into the sand barriers, and with such a large space, a few grenades will be enough to make them incapacitated.

Fortunately, the Japanese army also attacked lightly and did not carry artillery fire, otherwise a few 92 infantry artillery shells would have caused them heavy casualties, however, the national army was not completely defenseless, at least there was an isolation zone in the middle, which would not allow the shell shrapnel to easily cover the entire sand base.

The two machine guns were quickly set up, and two tongues of fire were swept out from the flanks, and the first few rows of Japanese troops were swept down in an instant, and the rear ones hurriedly crawled back, and the position of the platoon commander of the second lieutenant of the national army was relatively tricky, and basically only half of his head was exposed, but the machine gunner on the reservoir side was dumbfounded by the devil's 38 big cover rifle before the bullet was finished, and the shooting level of the Japanese infantry was really not covered.

Seeing that the national army counterattacked, the Japanese heavy machine guns suddenly stopped strafing, but this seemed to be the signal to charge, and the Japanese soldiers got up from the ground and fired back while shooting back, while striding forward, it was a completely fatal way of fighting.

More than 30 officers and men of the national army in the sand base also raised their weapons one after another, sparing no effort to shoot out the bullets in the guns, the Japanese troops in front were densely packed, and they could hit the enemy without aiming, and the two Czech ones also quickly turned from the ground to the ground, frantically spitting tongues of fire.

The sound of the water crumbling covered out all sounds, and the river seemed to be a pantomime, but the scene was still tragic, with bullets and blood splashing, and in less than ten minutes, nearly half of the casualties in the national army's trenches were scattered, and the Japanese soldiers were even more corpses everywhere.

The Japanese army seemed to see through the weakness of the lack of strength of the national army, and rushed forward with all their strength while shooting, and the two light machine guns of the national army were logically able to block the Japanese attack, because after all, there was only a road four or five meters wide, and the light machine gun was enough to control the situation in a fan-shaped blockade, but the Japanese army's individual quality was not bad, and the three or eight big covers in their hands were all aimed at the machine gunners to shoot, and the time for the two light machine guns to fire at the same time was very small.

Seeing that there were no more people in the sand base of the national army, the platoon commander of the second lieutenant of the national army also fell in the trench, his chest was full of eye-catching, blood soaked the military uniform, and there was only air out of his mouth but no air intake, and he couldn't live when he saw it. At this moment, the Japanese grenades also began to pour into the trenches, and the last bit of fire in the sand barricade was also drowned out by the shells, and the Japanese troops launched a charge forward.

Seeing that the loss of the position has become a fact, at this time, a group of people suddenly came out from behind the stone house, and the first was a colonel of the national army, only to see them with hideous faces, holding a Czech-style light machine gun in both hands and sweeping out, and the person who came was Chen Feng, the commander of the first regiment of the 93rd division of the expeditionary force.

The soldiers of the national army who followed Chen Feng were all in the Czech style in their hands, as if the suppressive firepower of the whole regiment was all up, more than a dozen light machine guns were fired at the same time, and they strafed a road less than five meters wide, and the dense bullet net could simply sweep everything, and the Japanese army was soon like harvested ears of wheat, cut in rows, and the sudden crowding caused countless Japanese soldiers on both sides to fall into the water or fall off the cliff on the other side, the scene was chaotic and full of blood, and the road was instantly filled with Japanese corpses, The troops in the rear also retreated like a tide.

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Luotongpo, the temporary headquarters of the Japanese Motorized Wing.

The guidance of the knife is very accurate, and the location of the Japanese headquarters is in Luotongpo, but the Japanese wing commander obviously has not read the Three Kingdoms, and he does not know that there is such a metaphor in this place name, otherwise, he may really find another place.

At this moment, the wing commander Katagiri Kumaji was thundering at the command headquarters, and the news that the Kojima Wing had been blocked from grabbing the reservoir had already reached the headquarters, and at the cost of more than 300 casualties of the imperial army, it was simply a shame for the imperial army to have not taken the enemy's position.

But the sluice gate of the reservoir has been opened, the Liangmiao River is filled with water in an instant, the dreams of tanks and infantry to pass on the river beach are basically shattered, and the rushing and roaring river water swoops down all the way, and the monstrous waves set off almost cover the entire bridge deck, and the soldiers on the bridge are in danger of being swept away by the flood at any time, so the attack on the bridge has to be stopped.

Therefore, despite the fact that reinforcements from the expeditionary force in the direction of the reservoir had arrived, the offensive had to continue, and the Imperial Army would not be able to cross the river at all without closing the sluices.

On the one hand, Katagiri Kumaji urgently called the air force to carry out a carpet bombardment of the expeditionary force on the reservoir embankment, and on the other hand, in order to prevent the air force from arriving in time, he prepared a second set of plans and immediately ordered the artillery squad to rush to the Jianbushan Reservoir; after the description of the captain of the small island, there was almost no danger to defend on the reservoir embankment, and as long as there were a few even small-caliber 92 infantry guns, it would be enough to destroy the defensive positions of the expeditionary force, and it would be a matter of minutes to occupy the reservoir.